The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-04-13
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iron; the YorSvills Enquirer, april 6D
Yesterday morning opened on the
! closing scene Of o2e Of the most fearfu
tragedies ever enacted in York county
With the brutal murder Of the little IN
nocant boy Johnnie Lee Good, on tht
evening Of the Both OF last November
our readers are familiar. On tlat eve
ming, as the investigation Of the jury o.
inquest and subsequent confessions de
veIopea, the murderers proved to be
PrindleJ Thomson, Bailey Dowdie, Dan
Roberts and close Lipscomb, with a num-
Der OF supposed accessories before the
fact, it being believed that combination
for the purposes Of robbery and murder
existed among the negroes OF that neigh
borhood, in BulIock's Creek township,
and adjacent to Broad River. Several
OF the accessories or accompiices whose
names were diyulged by the investiga.
ton were lodged in jail, where thcy now
are.
Excitement ran high in the neighbor-
hood Of the murder, as Indignation was
also manifested throughout the county.
The victim was an unotfending boy less
than fourteen years old, the son OF we'll
to-do and worthy parents, by whom he
was idolized. In an unfortunate moment,
as PrindIey Thomson confessed IN the
jail, the little boy detected him, Nose,
Dan and Bailey, in the act Of stealing
cotton from his fathers field. 70 pre-
vent exposure, the cotton | ieves brutal
II murdered him. Prindley made this
confession:
II went with them after the cotton in
,Ir. Goods field, and lett them there.
Bailey had the boys waist; l had his
legs: Nose was choking him, and Dan
carried the rocks. We all went away by
the pasture field Bailey hit him first
with tie rock when We first got hold of
the boy. Dan saw the boy first. Dan
said: ':Boys, yonder is Lee. Bailey nut
first, and Dan next. Nose jumped on
/ Lis bowels"
Such was the material potion OF
Pr;udley's confession, the wounds on the
dead body Of the boy corroborating his
statement as 70 the manner Of inf!ctlon.
After this confession was made and be-
came known, It being reasonably certain
OF the positive guilt oi Prindley, Bailey,
! Ian and Nose, tie pent up feeling OF
tie western side OF the county found
yel.5S N threats Of iynching, and besides
! the four named, the biooG OF Giles Good,
the supposed instiga:or Of the crime,
and accessory, was also demanded.
/ Sheriff Clean, vigilaEt ior the safety
o. lis pr-yo4ers. becoming satisfied that
the threat OF lynching would oe at
tempted, on the evening OF December
14th procured an order from Judge
! Y'itherspoor transferring them for safe
Keeping 20 the jail at Columbia, and on
that night they We're spirited away.
True to his expectations, about o'clock
on the following morning, a crowd OF
abou. seyentty i've mounted men, undls-
gu;zed, approached the jail, prepared
WITH axes and sledge hammers and some
armed with shot guns, and a number OF
them securing an entrance through the
corridor. proceeded to the third floor
and commenced Dattering the wooden
| shuff:r covering TIE ron door which
leads to the cells. BY the time the
Sheriff was aroused by the noise and had
run up to the landing on the third floor,
one panel Of the wooden shutter was
knocked out and tie crowd we're moving
on the works as though they meant bus
ness. When the Sheriff interposed, the
crowd desisted until he convinced them
that the men wanted were not IN the
jail. The whole party, which, aside
from their demonstration On the jail, had
been quiet and orderly, then peaceably
rode out Of town.
The Sheriff foiled the would-be ynch-
ers and saved his prisoners, who about
the hour Of the demonstration were IN
North Carolina Oh their way TO Colum-
bia, where they remained until last Sat
urdav, when the Sheriff deputiZed Dr.
\. I. Cartwright and Nj. James H..
! Riddle. two men in whose courage under
contingent difficulties he had full conf
dence, to conduct the prisoners from
Columbia TO Iorkviiie. The transfer
was accomplished without incident, and
on Saturday evening they were returned
to their old quarters in the Iorkvllle
jail
It was supposed that tie excitement
aid indignation incident to the murder
had subsidized, and certainly all feeling
for summary vengeance was slumoerlng
until Monday morning when the unmis-
taxable iunacy OF the father Of the muir
dered boy rekindled the anger OF al who
witnessed the unfortunate man on the
way to the Asylum. No cautious in
curry, however, could discover any
undue feeling in the general current OF
public sentiment. The inquisiti5e news
paper man, in his suggestive way, en-
deavored here and there TO gain :: clue,
but every person approached upon the
su5iect. expressed the opinion taat the
law would take its course. Late Monday
evening tie Sheriff felt sense OF perfect
security, and Yolkyi1e retired Monday
night, little expecting to wake Up next
morning to find five dead bodies dang
ling from the limbs of trees almost within
the corporate limits.
The men chose foc the hour OF their
work the wee small hours, and al half
past the s erif, who was also jaiior, was
awakened by noise at the door. He
rushed up to the crowd il his night
dress, and he refusing 10 surrender the
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